Athletes with connections to Washington state shone in Vancouver and Whistler, while the Games honored Indigenous relations and highlighted the potential of local winter adaptive sports.

Brian Schmetzer is carefully coaching the Seattle soccer team for a rigorous schedule of regular MLS play and tournaments — one of them being global.

In 2021, revelations about sexual misconduct and racism roiled the NWSL and sparked investigations. Now, the women's soccer league will set aside $5 million for victims and implement other reforms.

The NWSL became the first top-tier pro sports league in the United States to eliminate the draft last year as part of its collective-bargaining agreement with players.

Wheelchair rugby was hugely popular at the 2024 Paralympics. That attention trickled down to the Seattle Slam, Washington's only wheelchair rugby club.

Ichiro Suzuki's career was full of hitting streaks, All-Star Games and Gold Glove awards. But all that paled compared to moments with fans like his farewell at the Tokyo Dome in 2019, he said.

Ichiro Suzuki has become the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, voted in along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

U.S. national team and Boston Fleet forward Hilary Knight finds it fitting to have the PWHL kicking off its nine-game neutral site slate of games in Seattle on Sunday.

The WNBA will stage its first regular season game outside the U.S. when Atlanta and Seattle play in Vancouver on Aug. 15.

Jewell Loyd wants out of Seattle. The six-time WNBA All-Star requested a trade, according to a person familiar with the situation.